Thursday, 15 August 2013

k i t e s

Haptic Lab - Part 2 - Kites

As well as Emily's Quilts, she had also started a Kites Project. Emily had taken a traditional Balinese design and made it her own to create Sailing Ship Kites.

Each kite was handmade by Balinese artisans exclusively for Haptic Lab from locally-sourced bamboo and nylon, and are a certified Fair Trade product. The white kites measure approximately 26 x 28” and as we found out they fly best in strong winds, and fly in a figure of '8' motion.

The kites also comes with Baltic birch kite handle, specially made for Haptic Lab, and wrapped with braided dacron flying line all made in NYC.

They've arrived!

Baltic birch kite handle ready to wrap

My task was to hand paint and draw 20 of these kites for people to pledge on Kick Starter...

so i got to work...

Trying to fly on our Brooklyn rooftop!

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all finished we got to work packaging them

all folded down

Making the labels and numbering them

testing out the new grommet machine

all finished ready to sail on out

You can find Emilys Sailing Ship Kites here and more kites to follow...